Astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith

Meet Lisa Harvey-Smith. She looked up to Mars as a child and fell in love with space. Now she’s helping to build the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) as part of the world’s largest telescope.

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